Measuring and fitting form for body garments



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Patented Mar. 18, 1924.

HYMAN BUSHLOIVITZ, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

MEASURING AND FITTING FORM FOR BODY GAR/MENTS.

Application led August 29, 1922. Serial No. 585,020.

To all whom t may concern,

Be it known that I, HYMAN BUsHLowITZ,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Reading, in the county ofBerks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in lifeasuring and Fitting Forms for Body Garments, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garment measuring and fitting devices fortailors and dressmakers; and it consists in an improved form comprisingadjustably connected vertical and circumferential measuring strips andadapted to be removed from the figure to which it has been adjusted forsubsequent use as a fitting form, as fully described in connection withthe accompanying drawing and clearly defined in the subjoined claim.

Fig. l is a front elevation of a preferred embodiment of my invention;the adjusted device being shown and set up as a fitting form apart fromthe figure to which it has been adjusted.

Figs. 2 and 8 are corresponding rear and side elevations of the same.

Figs. 4 to 7 are separate views of certain of the parts indicated.

The device as shown comprises al top frame work made up of a neck band5, and an arm opening band 6, 6 on eac-h side thereof adjustablyconnected thereto by separate shoulder strips 7, 7. These bands arepreferably formed of sheet metal shaped respectively to required neckand arm openings, with each arm-opening band preferably formed in twoadjustably connected parte 6 and 6a as indicated to permit of readilysizing the opening-edge 6b 'thereof as required, and the spread thereoffrom the neck band 5 being regulated by the separate adjustable shoulderstrips 7, 7 said neck band 5, as shown, being open in the front so as tomore readily permit removal of the adjusted device from the measuredfigure.

Suspended from this adjustable top frame work are series of vertical andcircumferential measuring strips or bands of resilient sheet material;the vertical side strips 10, l0 being secured to the respectivearmopening bands with the top ends thereof on the opening-edge 6b; andthe uppermost circumferential strip 1l, formed in separate front andrear parts, being similarly connected to said arm-opening band; whileadditional vertical measuring strips, '10, 10",

l()c in front and l0, 10e, 10 in rear, are similarly connected to theopen neck,v band 5 and shoulder strips 7, 7k as indicated. Thesedepending resilient strips are crossed by additional circumferentialmeasuring strips 11a, 11", ll, at required measuring points; thecrossings in each case being` engaged by suitable slip-clamps l5, l5.l5,

adapted to permit of relative adjustment of the strips at each crossingpoint as desired and to retain the same in the adjusted relationrequired to conform the parts with the shape of the figure to which thedevice is applied.

The resilient stiffness of the parts of my improved structure is such asto insure its return tothe shape of the figure to which it has beenconformed by required adjustment, even though it be considerablydisturbed temporarily in removing it from such ligure; the essentialpurpose of my invention being to not onlyprovide for convenientlyreading all important figure measurements upon the Xedly adjusted partsthereof, but to permit of subsequently using it as a fitting form forthe garment made therefrom without changing the essential adjustedconnections made in shaping it upon vthe figure. To enable removal ofthe adjusted form from the figure to which it has been adjusted, it isnecessary only to provide for disconnecting the overlapping end portionsof the severa-l circumferential measuring strips il, il, 1lb, 1l", in avertical line with the open neck band 5 as indicated at the front inFig. il.; so that the form may be forcibly sprung to spread apart thenormally adjacent vertical strips 10b, 10b, sufficiently to enableremoval of the form from the figure similarly to the removing of a`coat. The required temporary bending of the resilient strips is withouteffect upon their slip-clamp connections l5, at the crossings; which,asv shown in Figs. 4 and 5, are simply made of sheet metal, with pairsof spaced slots 15 and 15b provided for engaging the vertical strips andhorizontal strips therein, the slight bending of the passing stripsserving to prevent any unintended change of position. The meeting endsof each circumferential strip are disconnectably clampable together atproperly adjusted length, simply by means of a clamping sleeve 20frictionally gripping the inserted ends, which ends may be drawn throughsaid sleeve for adjustment of length, or Withdrawn entirely todisconnect the ends and enable removal o1C the adjusted form from the`figure, and thereafter' reengaged as previously determined to rigidlyset the removed form for use as a. specially adjusted fitting -form forthe garment. l/Vhen used as a fitting Jterm, the removed frame may besupported in any convenient manner, as on ligure stand. And inconnection with the frame I may employ special charts or diagrams uponwhich the measurements read on the body-adjusted 4frame may be set downand used later in setting up a. corresponding frame. Where measurementsare made in one shop and the garment made up in a distant factory.Additional strips may be added When required to give bodyconformation tothe fitting frame7 and positive nut-clamping connections used in placeof the slip-olamps shown and described.

What I Claim is:

ln a combined measuring and fitting form for body garments, thecombina-tion With a top body frame Work made up of an openfront neckband and arm opening` bands, each independently adjustable and united byadjustable top shoulder straps, of ay series of front, Side and rearresilient measuring strips suspended from said frame and carrying aseries of circumferential measuring strips of like material, the latterhavinglr their meeting ends overlapping a central vertical line of theform7 adjustable slip clamps at the crossings of said vertical andcircumferential strips, and releasable clamping devices for saidoverlapping` ends of the circumferential strips, whereby the latter maybe parted to form an opening to said form.

In testimony whereof- I affix my signature.

HYMAN BUsHLoivrrZ.

